2014 African Champs *Schedule (PDF) *Meet Website

LRC Eritrea’s Nguse Amlosom (Tesfaldet) Wins Eritrea’s First-Ever Medal (And Gold) At African Champs In Men’s 10,000 Morocco’s Mustapha El Aziz was 2nd and CG silver medalist Josphat Bett was third as Moses Kipsiro was a DNS.

• Athletics Kenya Screws Up Again? Kenyans Struggle On Opening Day After Disastrous 32-Hour Travel Time From Glasgow And to top it all off, some had to compete in the wrong uniforms. “I have run disappointingly slow times that I didn’t imagine I could run in a continental event.”
• Mercy Cherono And Genzebe Dibaba Set For Clash In Women’s 5,000

• CG 10,000 Champ Moses Kipsiro Wants To Switch To Marathon Soon He says he’d already have done it but his agent Ricky Simms insisted he stick to the track.
• Nigeria Expects To Dominate Sprints And Medal Count At African Champs
• South African Jav Thrower Sunette Viljoen Wants 4th African Title, Then Will Compete In Continental Cup
• Many Of Kenya’s Commonwealth Games Starts Will Be Favorites At African Champs, Which Start Sunday Rudisha, however, isn’t competing.

Europeans Start Tuesday *Schedule/Results *Watch Live On 9 Feeds

• The Recently-Engaged Chris O’Hare Is Ready For Europeans: “None of the guys who beat me in Glasgow are going to be at the Europeans.”
• Ireland’s 21-Year-Old 800 Ace Mark English Is Ready: “I know I’m in the best shape of my life.” 1:44.84 man English is still coachless (LRC will coach him for free) and enjoying still being a student.
• European Athletics Preview of Long Distance Events No one in Europe has broken 13:10 this year.
• Mo Farah Is In A League Of His Own
• Good Profile Of Irish 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr He and his sister Jessie have both won multiple Irish titles.
• James Dasaoulo: “Our 4 x 100 relay team can break the British record.” We’d hope so as it includes 3 of the 5 Brits who have ever broken 10.00.

• New Generation Of British Sprinters Set To Come Of Age At Euros World Junior 100 champ Dina Asher-Smith leads the way.
• Goldie Sayers Delighted At Being Named UK Captain
• LJ Olympic Champ Greg Rutherford Wants European Gold, Then Winter Olympic Gold In 2018 In Bob Skeleton
• Preview Of The Jumps At Europeans
• Bohdan Bondarenko Has The World Record In Sight

A Real Running Hero

LRC A Real Running Hero: The Flo Groberg Story Two years ago, former Maryland track and field and cross-country runner Flo Groberg helped thwart a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. This is his story.

Random

• The Fastest NY 800 HSer Ever – Jeff Van Wie – Is The Writer Of New Movie – “4 Minute Mile” Van Wie ran 1:48.56 in 1983. *MB: “4 Minute Mile” – Have any of you seen this new movie yet?
• Competitor.com: Is the Paleo Diet Good For Runners?
• Jamaica’s World Junior Team Captain Jonielle Smith (11.32 100, 22.36 200) Is Going To Auburn

Track And Field History 101

• Good Read: Catching Up With The British 4 X 100 Team That Shocked The World (And US) By Winning 4 X 100 Gold 10 Years Ago 4 guys, none of whom made individual finals, somehow won gold. Amazing.
• History Lesson: 60 Years Ago: Roger Bannister Defeated John Landy In Miracle Mile
  
• Exclusive Interview: Sir Roger Bannister On The Miracle Mile A great read. Bannister, who now has Parkinson’s, talks in great depth about his career. Find out more about him in a new autobiography that just came out: Twin Tracks.
• Canadian Runners, Including One Who Was In Race Inspired By Miracle Mile
• Q&A With Joan Benoit Samuelson, 30 Years After Her Historic Olympic Marathon Gold In LA A good read for sure on the woman who had knee surgery 17 days before the Olympic Trials.
• Adios, Irving! Irving Saladino Announces His Retirement The 31-year-old was the 2007 and 2008 gold medalist and is the only Panamanian to win Olympic gold in any sport.